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I won't be writing. The athletic department has far deeper and ultimately more dangerous problems than staffing of the football program.

Customer service is abysmal. Hiring a pair of extra fund-raisers while leaving the ticket office staff intact showed exactly where we, the fan base, stand in the esteem of Bartow West.

Marketing is poor.

Media relations are apparently non-existent.

It doesn't matter how many games UAB wins or loses in football or basketball if a) potential fans never hear about them and b) if they do show up, they're treated like unwelcome vermin.

Complaining about an assistant football coach just muddies the waters and allows Brian Mackin to dismiss all complaints as the product of a handful of angry whiners. His problems are a lot worse than that, and it's his job performance that needs to be under the microscope, and not because of wins and losses.

Or to put it in another perspective: I've attended five football games and six basketball games this season. I've been welcomed at exactly one of them: the away game at Jacksonville.